I didn't watch it, but I heard it had less-than-stellar reviews.
My take on battles in Pre-TOS is to make things look very different from what we see in recent Trek: More primitive, something like you'd find in the
Starfleet Museum with missiles and weak (
or pulsed) laser cannons (
or turrets). One thing likeable in Trek battles is to see ships fighting up close which suits as eye-candy, but as I think about it, I figured realistically that combat would occur in vast ranges, such as thousands, perhaps millions of kilometers, rather than the up-close and personal ship-to-ship combat centuries ago, or even during World War II...
...And as I also state, Trek isn't about fighting and fighting, it isn't mindless TV. We learn that when we see a story of morality unfold before us, something relating to
today's issues, from religion to politics to the horrors of war, and so on and so fourth. And what I also like about Trek is its optimistic view of the future, and that's what makes me stay connected to it.